View full sizeBrendan Kuty/NJ.comKazumi Sushi on North Beverwyck Road in Parsippany where police say a woman last week was stabbed to death by her husband reopened Thursday.

PARSIPPANY — Days after authorities said a woman was found stabbed to death by her husband in Kazumi Sushi's kitchen, the restaurant reopened Thursday.

A manager declined comment and owners couldn't be reached. But a pair of employees said they had mixed emotions about walking back into the business where 34-year-old Yun Fei Lin, of Parsippany, was allegedly murdered by her husband, Jiu Jian Zheng, 42, late Friday night.

Zheng is being held at Morris County Correctional Facility en lieu of $1 million cash bail.

Carl Jiang, a server, said he was happy to see the red "crime scene" sign removed from Kazumi Sushi's door. But Jiang also said he and others missed Lin, who also went by the first name "Wendy." An assistant Morris County prosecutor said in court Lin was a "part-owner" of the restaurant, according to the Star-Ledger.

"Customers liked her so much," Jiang said. "Everyone who came in today asked about her."

Parsippany resident Christopher Reeder, 17, is also a Kazumi Sushi server. He said in addition to letting him leave early on school nights, Lin hired him Friday — hours before she was killed — to tutor her two young sons, who the Star-Ledger reported are in now in state protective custody.

Reeder said Lin "was one of the sweetest people I've ever met. She was always so nice to me." He said he lives around the corner from the restaurant and that he heard police sirens the night of the murder.

But Reeder said he was surprised the business had opened less than a week after the murder.

"It came as a shock," he said. "I thought they would be closed for a while. I don't know if a lot of people are going to come back, to be honest. I know I will come back. I'm going to be loyal. I love the food there, and the service was awesome."

Rachel Guglielmi-Nelson, co-owner of Karma Salon and Spa across the street from the restaurant, hopes Kazumi Sushi will recover. She said Lin was outgoing, engaging surrounding businesses and encouraging partnerships.

Guglielmi-Nelson said she visited the restaurant Thursday to wish them luck.

"I'm happy that they're open and I hope they do have the opportunity to grow," Guglielmi-Nelson said of Kazumi Sushi, which opened last December. "She wasn't the only business owner there. Some of them have children. I feel that their livelihoods shouldn't be affected by one man's horrible decision."

Though business appeared slow, Reeder, his grandmother and another family member returned to Kazumi Sushi for dinner around 6 p.m. Thursday.

Montville resident Greg Young also bought a large order for dinner. Young said he didn't know about the murder until after buying his food, and that though news of it made him a bit uneasy, it probably wouldn't prevent him from going there again.

Zheng was charged with first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.

Zheng initially told authorities his wife stabbed herself, but he later admitted to the murder, Morris County Assistant Prosecutor John McNamara Jr. said to the Star-Ledger.